Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McNamara said, work on most of these problems could be carried out without the atmospheric atomic tests that would be banned by the treaty. Atmospheric tests would surely be useful in perfecting a warhead for an antimissile missile, but McNamara insisted that satisfactory progress could also be achieved with the underground tests that the treaty permits. As for solving the blackout problem, which cannot be duplicated without actual atmospheric testing, McNamara only said lamely: "We will be able to design around the remaining uncertainties...
This treaty does not halt American nuclear progress. Our atomic laboratories will maintain an active development program, including underground testing, and we will be ready to resume testing in the atmosphere if necessary...
...attempt made more headlines than it did progress. Cantave's men took two tiny peasant villages, Meyac and Dérac. From there the invasion force pushed on to Fort Liberté. The garrison fired on the invaders, and the invaders fired back. After hours of sporadic gunplay, the invaders retreated into the hills, perhaps to fight another...
...tougher time. Though untouched by violence, they had to unlearn old fears amid "normal" adolescent strains. One Negro boy worriedly studied karate before entering a white school: another dreamed of himself in Little Rock, holding off whites with a machine gun. Yet integration spurred many to sudden pride and progress. Instead of "always watching and peeking around," as one boy put it, "I feel as if I've been let out of jail and into America...
...effect. There seems scant chance of this, since Common Market officials have not even scheduled a meeting before the Sept. 15 deadline set by the U.S. The irony is that the outburst of transatlantic recriminations has come just when U.S. and Common Market negotiators had begun to make some progress at working out new and sweeping tariff cuts among 50 nations, scheduled to be made at the next meeting of GATT...